Rodney Baker wrote: > Hi all. Not sure if this is directly relevant to Suse or whether I should be > asking this on a kde-related list but here goes. I'm using KMail 1.9.6 on > 10.3 (KDE 3.5.7) running a Dovecot IMAP server so that I can access my email > from my desktop or a couple of laptops on the lan. > > For some reason the size value in the folder list (I assume this is the size > of each mail folder?) does not reduce in value when messages are deleted from > a folder, but continues to increase each time a new message is received. > > For example I currently have 5 messages in my inbox totalling around 24k in > size but the folder list tells me that my inbox is 915kB. > > I don't know if this is a bug with KMail and the way it interacts with IMAP > servers, if it is a bug with dovecot perhaps reporting incorrectly to KMail > or what. > > I have previously tried running Cyrus IMAP but gave up on that a couple of > years ago - dovecot was so much easier to get running. > > Whilst this isn't a showstopper (and I can get around it by disabling the > size > column in the folder list), I'm wondering if anyone else on the list is > running a similar setup and may have noticed this behaviour (perhaps even > with a different IMAP server)?
When you delete a mail in your imap account the mail is only marked with the delete flag. Only when you compress the folder (or whatever it is called in KMail) will the marked mails be expunged and removed from storage. It's a feature, not a bug. (^-^) -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
